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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§3423d Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students

Title 20 › CHAPTER 48 — DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › SUBCHAPTER II — ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT › § 3423d

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Department must have an office to run bilingual education and help students who are limited English proficient. The Secretary appoints a Director to lead that office and gives the Director the bilingual-education duties the Secretary can delegate. The Director must recommend improvements, provide technical help to other federal programs that serve language-minority students and their families, and help set research priorities with the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. The Director can organize the office as needed. The Secretary must make sure language-minority and limited-English students are included in any Department standards or tests in fair, accurate, and reliable ways.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §3423d

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(a)Establishment
There shall be, in the Department, an Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students through which the Secretary shall carry out functions relating to bilingual education.
(b)Director
(1)In general
The Office shall be headed by a Director of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students, appointed by the Secretary, to whom the Secretary shall delegate all delegable functions relating to bilingual education. The Director shall also be assigned responsibility for recommending improvements and providing technical assistance to other Federal programs serving language-minority and limited-English-proficient students and their families and for assisting the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in identifying research priorities which reflect the needs of language-minority and limited-English language proficient students.
(2)Organization
The Office shall be organized as the Director determines to be appropriate in order to carry out such functions and responsibilities effectively.
(3)Inclusion
The Secretary shall ensure that limited-English-proficient and language-minority students are included in ways that are valid, reliable, and fair under all standards and assessment development conducted or funded by the Department.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Another section 216 of Pub. L. 96–88 was renumbered section 218 and is classified to section 3425 of this title.

Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–110, § 1072(c)(2)(B), substituted “Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students” for “Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–110, § 1072(b), substituted “Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students” for “Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs”. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 107–110, § 1072(d), substituted “Director of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students” for ‘Director of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2002 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 107–110 effective Jan. 8, 2002, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 107–110, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 6301 of this title. Office of Educational Research and ImprovementThe Office of Educational Research and Improvement was established by section 3419 of this title. section 3419 was repealed and a new section 3419 establishing the Institute of Educational Sciences was enacted by Pub. L. 107–279, title IV, § 402(2), Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1985.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 3423d

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110